PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Agriculture (the Hoii. W. L. Martin) will leave Wellington tonight on a tour of the South Island, where he will inspect the activities of his Department. He will arrive back in Wellington on March 3. TheMinister will be accompanied by.Mrs. Martin and Miss Martin; .

His Honour Mi. Justice Page, Judge of the Arbitration1 Court, and Mr. W. Cecil Prime (employers' assessor) and Mr. A. L. Monteith (employees' assessor) will leave for Dunedin this .evening. The Court expects to sit for three weeks in Dunedin and a week in Invercargill.

Mr. H. F. O'Leary, .K.C., left Wellington for the south last night.

Mr. F. P: -Walsh,' president of the Seamen's Union, left Wellington for the south' last night. -. •

Mr. W.G. Talbotleft for the south last night. . , i

Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, M.P.'for'Egmont, left Auckland for Sydney "by the Awatea yesterday. ■ ■■'■■■

Mr. F. B. Spencer, managing director of the Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, Limited, accompanied by Mr. R. G. Hook, arrived, at Auckland on Monday "by the Awatea on a business visit-to New Zealand. ■•■•"'■

Dr. S. P. yon Lichtenhprf, of Budapest, a former Hungarian Judge, arrived at Auckland by the Awatea on Monday on a brief holiday visit to New Zealand.

The Hon. Mr. Justice Whitney, a resident Judge at. Singapore for the last fifteen years, arrived at Auckland by the Awatea on Monday; He intends to spend a week in New Zealand before leaving by the Aorangi next Tuesday on his way to England, where he will spend his furlough.

Dr. W. Hellenthal, German Consul for New Zealand and Samoa, is paying an official visit to Auckland. He' will be welcomed by members of the German Club on Thursday evening, and will return to Wellington towards the end of the week.

The Rev. Dr. E. N. Merrington, master of Knox College, Dunedin, who, has been abroad for several months, will leave Sydney by the Awatea next Friday on'his return to New Zealand- Dr. Merrington attended the Institute of Pacific Relations Conference in California and the tercentenary of Harvard University. . ' ■■

Mr. E. Angus Jones, of Wellington, is at present visiting Auckland.•-..> He expects to return to Wellington on Saturday. ' . ...

Mr. O. G. Kember and Ms eldest son Richard will leave Auckland on February 23 by the Aorangi for England, via Canada and the United States. They will arrive in London about the middle of April, where Miss Margaret Kember will join them in time for the Coronation festivities. ' ".■>;■

Mr W A. Kellow. was re-elected president of the Wellington Master Bakers Union at the annual meeting this week. He has how-held the office for 35 years. Mr G. H. Bassant, who returned recently from a tour of England, and the .Continent,, was welcomed back to the Wellington Rugby League Board of Control by the chairman (Mr. L. Benseman) at a meeting- of ;the board last night. , ...